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Are Household Production Decisions Cooperative? Evidence on Pastoral Migration and Milk Sales from Northern Kenya

Doss, Cheryl R.; McPeak, John G. - 2005

pastoral setting from Kenya. Our results suggest that household decisions are contested, with husbands using migration …

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Impacts and impact dynamics of smallholder participation in high-value markets in Kenya

Kiria, Christine Gacheri - 2015

Many developing countries are experiencing a food system transformation with a rapid growth of supermarkets. This supermarket growth can be attributed to demand-side factors such as rising incomes, urbanization, and changing lifestyles, as well as supply-side factors, such as market...

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Contractual relationships in the absence of formal enforcement : experimental evidence from Germany and Kenya

Kunte, Sebastian - 2015

This dissertation consists of three experimental studies that aim at contributing to a better understanding of behavior within contractual relationships—in particular, if information asymmetries, incentive issues and a lack of formal institutions make exchange more difficult and risky....

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Risky environments, hidden knowledge, and preferences for contract flexibility : an artefactual field experiment

Kunte, Sebastian; Wollni, Meike - 2015

and asymmetric information about the realized surplus (i.e., hidden knowledge). We examine if Nairobi slum dwellers choose …

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Improved production systems for traditional food crops : the case of finger millet in Western Kenya

Handschuch, Christina; Wollni, Meike - 2013

the factors that are influencing adoption decisions among finger millet farmers in Western Kenya. Based on cross …

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Are household production decisions cooperative? : Evidence on pastoral migration and milk sales from Northern Kenya

Doss, Cheryl R.; McPeak, John G. - 2005

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Index Based Livestock Insurance for Northern Kenya’s Arid and Semi-Arid Lands : The Marsabit Pilot

Mude, Andrew - 2013

In Kenya's arid and semi arid lands (ASALs), drought is the most pervasive hazard, natural or otherwise, encountered by … households on a widespread level. This is especially true for northern Kenya, where more than 3 million pastoralist households … are regularly hit by increasingly severe droughts. In the past 100 years, northern Kenya recorded 28 major droughts, 4 of …

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Insuring Against Drought‐Related Livestock Mortality : Piloting Index Based Livestock Insurance in Northern Kenya

Mude, Andrew G. - 2013

Northern Kenya from the considerable drought‐related livestock mortality risk that they face. Detailing the conditions that … make the pastoral economy in Northern Kenya an ideal candidate for the provision of index‐based insurance products, the … district of Northern Kenya in early 2010 …

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Dynamic Field Experiments in Development Economics : Risk Valuation in Morocco, Kenya and Peru

Lybbert, Travis J. - 2015

experiments in Morocco, Peru, and Kenya …

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Are household production decisions cooperative? : evidence on pastoral migration and milk sales from Northern Kenya

Doss, Cheryl R.; McPeak, John G. - 2005

pastoral setting from Kenya. Our results suggest that household decisions are contested, with husbands using migration …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011611002